The Eternal Memory
Chile, U.S.
Director: Maite Alberdi
Alberdi’s follow-up to Oscar- nominated “The Mole Agent” snagged Sundance’s top doc award and a worldwide distribution deal with MTV at Sundance. Co-produced by Fabula, it centers on a loving elderly couple struggling with the man’s fading memory.
The Cardinal (“El Cardenal”)
Chile, Argentina, Brazil
Director: Benjamín Ávila
Drama in development with Argentina’s Magma Cine, Brazil’s Gullane and Storyboard Media turns on a cardinal who struggles to accept the reality of Augusto Pinochet’s vicious dictatorship in the early 1970s.
Horizonte
Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Luxembourg
Director: Cesar Augusto Acevedo
Chile’s Paulina Garcia stars in Colombian Acevedo’s follow-up to Cannes-winning “Land and Shade.” Film follows Basilio and his mother, who search for his father through a wartorn land of the dead.
The House (“La Casa”)
Chile, Germany
Director: Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff
Docu...
Chile, U.S.
Director: Maite Alberdi
Alberdi’s follow-up to Oscar- nominated “The Mole Agent” snagged Sundance’s top doc award and a worldwide distribution deal with MTV at Sundance. Co-produced by Fabula, it centers on a loving elderly couple struggling with the man’s fading memory.
The Cardinal (“El Cardenal”)
Chile, Argentina, Brazil
Director: Benjamín Ávila
Drama in development with Argentina’s Magma Cine, Brazil’s Gullane and Storyboard Media turns on a cardinal who struggles to accept the reality of Augusto Pinochet’s vicious dictatorship in the early 1970s.
Horizonte
Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Luxembourg
Director: Cesar Augusto Acevedo
Chile’s Paulina Garcia stars in Colombian Acevedo’s follow-up to Cannes-winning “Land and Shade.” Film follows Basilio and his mother, who search for his father through a wartorn land of the dead.
The House (“La Casa”)
Chile, Germany
Director: Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff
Docu...
- 5/16/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Chilean directing duo Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff have secured the Best Pitch Forum Award at the 34th edition of IDFA with their documentary “La Casa.” Co-produced by Perut + Osnovikoff and Germany’s Dick Manthey Film, the project impressed with its story of a couple, stuck at home in Santiago due to Covid-19 and sequestered from the political tumult of the Chilean uprising, who turn inward and find multidimensional universes.
In a statement about “La Casa,” the IDFA Forum Award jury said “the [Best Pitch] award goes to a project that presents a unique perspective of an isolated space in a multifaceted form with nuanced sensory perception, though diverse visual and sound elements. The seclusion becomes a background for exploration of the many layers of relationships — with one another, the nature, the neighborhood, and the current social and political context of the contemporary world.”
Variety spoke to Perut and Osnovikoff ahead of...
In a statement about “La Casa,” the IDFA Forum Award jury said “the [Best Pitch] award goes to a project that presents a unique perspective of an isolated space in a multifaceted form with nuanced sensory perception, though diverse visual and sound elements. The seclusion becomes a background for exploration of the many layers of relationships — with one another, the nature, the neighborhood, and the current social and political context of the contemporary world.”
Variety spoke to Perut and Osnovikoff ahead of...
- 11/26/2021
- by JD Linville
- Variety Film + TV
Head of industry Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen says doc sector is bouncing back.
Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff,’s Chilean project La Casa has won the best pitch award at the IDFA Forum at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) this week. The project takes place in Chile during the pandemic lockdown and numbers among its producers Maite Alberdi, an Oscar nominee as a director last year for The Mole Agent.
Anna Shishova-Bogolubova’s The New Greatness picked up the IDFA Forum award for best rough cut. The film is about a Russian teenager whose life is turned upside down when she...
Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff,’s Chilean project La Casa has won the best pitch award at the IDFA Forum at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) this week. The project takes place in Chile during the pandemic lockdown and numbers among its producers Maite Alberdi, an Oscar nominee as a director last year for The Mole Agent.
Anna Shishova-Bogolubova’s The New Greatness picked up the IDFA Forum award for best rough cut. The film is about a Russian teenager whose life is turned upside down when she...
- 11/25/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff’s project “La Casa” won the IDFA Forum Award for Best Pitch on Wednesday at the 34th edition of the Amsterdam-based documentary festival.
A co-production between Chile and Germany – and currently in production – the film will focus on a time when a social revolt in Chile is unleashed and a global pandemic forces people into confinement. As the attention shifts toward the inside of a house, an unexpected multidimensional universe is revealed.
“The award goes to a project that presents a unique perspective of an isolated space in a multifaceted form with nuanced sensory perception, though diverse visual and sound elements,” jurors Jorge Caballero Ramos and Zane Balčus said.
“The seclusion becomes a background for exploration of the many layers of relationships: with one another, the nature, the neighborhood and the current social and political context of the contemporary world.”
“La Casa” is produced by...
A co-production between Chile and Germany – and currently in production – the film will focus on a time when a social revolt in Chile is unleashed and a global pandemic forces people into confinement. As the attention shifts toward the inside of a house, an unexpected multidimensional universe is revealed.
“The award goes to a project that presents a unique perspective of an isolated space in a multifaceted form with nuanced sensory perception, though diverse visual and sound elements,” jurors Jorge Caballero Ramos and Zane Balčus said.
“The seclusion becomes a background for exploration of the many layers of relationships: with one another, the nature, the neighborhood and the current social and political context of the contemporary world.”
“La Casa” is produced by...
- 11/24/2021
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
New projects from filmmakers Tatiana Huezo (“Prayers for the Stolen”), Mads Brügger (“Cold Case Hammarskjöld”), and Nishtha Jain (“Gulabi Gang”) will mark this year’s IDFA pitch forum, which will return as an in-person event, running concurrent to the larger festival from Nov. 20-26.
The doc festival’s industry focused co-financing and co-production market, IDFA Forum will host 62 titles across its five different sections, allowing filmmakers and producers to present their projects – all at various stages of production and development – before buyers, curators and various decision makers from the worlds of public and private broadcasting, streaming and international film festivals.
Heading into its 29th edition, the market’s flagship pitch session will host 23 titles. Among them, Huezo’s “The Echo” follows a group of children forged by the harsh climate of a remote mountain village; Brügger’s “Who Killed Thomas Sankara?” tracks the 1987 assassination of the Burkinabé president; and Jain...
The doc festival’s industry focused co-financing and co-production market, IDFA Forum will host 62 titles across its five different sections, allowing filmmakers and producers to present their projects – all at various stages of production and development – before buyers, curators and various decision makers from the worlds of public and private broadcasting, streaming and international film festivals.
Heading into its 29th edition, the market’s flagship pitch session will host 23 titles. Among them, Huezo’s “The Echo” follows a group of children forged by the harsh climate of a remote mountain village; Brügger’s “Who Killed Thomas Sankara?” tracks the 1987 assassination of the Burkinabé president; and Jain...
- 10/14/2021
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Black Film Archive
Created by Maya Cade, the newly-launched Black Film Archive is an essential resource featuring every Black film made between 1915 and 1979 that is currently available stream. With over 200 films indexed, if you’re looking for a place to start, check out Cade’s curator picks, ranging from Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl to Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come to Madeline Anderson’s I Am Somebody. Also, if you’re able to help the evolving, self-funded project, consider supporting their PayPal, Cash App, or their monthly Substack here.
Where to Stream: Black Film Archive
The Courier (Dominic Cooke)
Early on in The Courier, directed by Dominic Cooke, British salesman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) realizes he’s sitting at a...
Black Film Archive
Created by Maya Cade, the newly-launched Black Film Archive is an essential resource featuring every Black film made between 1915 and 1979 that is currently available stream. With over 200 films indexed, if you’re looking for a place to start, check out Cade’s curator picks, ranging from Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl to Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come to Madeline Anderson’s I Am Somebody. Also, if you’re able to help the evolving, self-funded project, consider supporting their PayPal, Cash App, or their monthly Substack here.
Where to Stream: Black Film Archive
The Courier (Dominic Cooke)
Early on in The Courier, directed by Dominic Cooke, British salesman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) realizes he’s sitting at a...
- 8/27/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Turkish word zeytin, which means “olive,” sometimes doubles as a complimentary adjective used to define a pair of deeply expressive, dark-colored eyes. With that context in mind, the Istanbul street dog much of Elizabeth Lo’s virtuosic feature documentary debut “Stray” tracks couldn’t have been more appropriately named. From the first moment Lo, an award-winning filmmaker of mostly documentary shorts, graces the screen with a closeup of Zeytin, it’s the canine’s eyes that register. Possessing a dramatic screen quality with her striking gaze, elegant lashes and playfully twitching and raising eyebrows, Zeytin steadily lends the film a piece of her incorruptible purity that at once enchants and strengthens spirits.
Thanks to the mutt’s magnificent orbs, one feels a soul-baring affinity with the fearless Zeytin as she searches for kindness while wandering and conquering the streets of Istanbul. It’s a tough town, but the young...
Thanks to the mutt’s magnificent orbs, one feels a soul-baring affinity with the fearless Zeytin as she searches for kindness while wandering and conquering the streets of Istanbul. It’s a tough town, but the young...
- 4/27/2020
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
Set to open Aug. 18 with two of Latin America’s biggest stars, Gael Garcia Bernal and Wagner Moura (“Narcos”), the 15th edition of Chile’s Santiago Int’l Film Festival (Sanfic) promises a focus on women directors and producers as it hosts a Women’s Encounter and Chile’s audiovisual guilds ink a pact to safeguard against sexual harassment in the work place.
The fest will kick off with Moura’s controversial directorial debut, “Marighella,” after bestowing career recognition awards on Garcia Bernal and Argentine thesp Graciela Borges.
On day two, Moura will participate in an Actor’s Studio interview open to the public, said Sanfic artistic director Carlos Nuñez and industry head Gabriela Sandoval, partners at Storyboard Media who jointly run the festival.
Three competitive sections – international, Chilean and shorts – will include cash prizes. The international, jury – Borges, Uruguayan producer Sandino Saravia (“Roma”) and Chilean director/editor Valeria Sarmiento,...
The fest will kick off with Moura’s controversial directorial debut, “Marighella,” after bestowing career recognition awards on Garcia Bernal and Argentine thesp Graciela Borges.
On day two, Moura will participate in an Actor’s Studio interview open to the public, said Sanfic artistic director Carlos Nuñez and industry head Gabriela Sandoval, partners at Storyboard Media who jointly run the festival.
Three competitive sections – international, Chilean and shorts – will include cash prizes. The international, jury – Borges, Uruguayan producer Sandino Saravia (“Roma”) and Chilean director/editor Valeria Sarmiento,...
- 8/9/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
When it comes to dog movies, Hollywood usually piles on extraneous family-friendly melodrama to build up a narrative. A new documentary hailing for Chile, however, puts our stars–and pretty much only our stars–front and center. Los Reyes is a formally impressive, heartfelt look at canine best friends who more or less govern a skate park and those that cross their path. Told with a patient eye and little frills, one comes away with a raw, poignant feeling of camaraderie.
Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff’s documentary, which I caught at Film Comment Selects earlier this year, will now get a theatrical release this August, courtesy of Grasshopper Film, starting at New York City’s Film Forum on the 14th of the month. Grasshopper have now debuted the U.S. trailer and poster, which show off the beautiful tale of friendship that awaits.
Los Reyes is the oldest skate...
Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff’s documentary, which I caught at Film Comment Selects earlier this year, will now get a theatrical release this August, courtesy of Grasshopper Film, starting at New York City’s Film Forum on the 14th of the month. Grasshopper have now debuted the U.S. trailer and poster, which show off the beautiful tale of friendship that awaits.
Los Reyes is the oldest skate...
- 7/29/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
As a life-long dog lover, I am always on the lookout for any new films about dogs. Los Reyes is one of the best dog films I've ever seen, and that's not even hyperbole. This magnificent documentary is about a skate park in the capital city of Santiago, Chile where two dogs reign as kings. Their names are Chola and Fútbol (or Football), and they've been living there since, well, forever. The film focuses entirely on these two dogs, and it's amazing. It's pretty much perfect (save for one or two shots). These dogs are the coolest, and this is one of the most vividly alive & extraordinarily engaging proofs that dogs do have personalities, friendships, things they love to do, and big thoughts in their minds. Made by filmmakers Iván Osnovikoff and Bettina Perut, Los Reyes is a stellar achievement because it's so spirited and so absorbing yet features no...
- 11/25/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Reason by Indian director Anand Patwardhan won the Idfa Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the 31st International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (14-25 November). The film, told in eight parts, charts the rise of religious and nationalist fundamentalism in Indian society.
At the prestigious European doc festival, Los Reyes by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff won the Idfa Special Jury Award for Feature-Length Documentary. The First Motion Of The Immovable by Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva picked up the Idfa Award for Best First Appearance, and opening film Kabul, City In The Wind by Aboozar Amini won the Idfa Special Jury Award for First Appearance. The winners were revealed last night [Wednesday 21 November].
Select winners below:
Idfa Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
Best feature-length documentary
Reason
Special Jury Award for feature-length documentary
Los Reyes
Idfa Competition for First Appearance
Best first appearance
Giacinto Scelsi.
At the prestigious European doc festival, Los Reyes by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff won the Idfa Special Jury Award for Feature-Length Documentary. The First Motion Of The Immovable by Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva picked up the Idfa Award for Best First Appearance, and opening film Kabul, City In The Wind by Aboozar Amini won the Idfa Special Jury Award for First Appearance. The winners were revealed last night [Wednesday 21 November].
Select winners below:
Idfa Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
Best feature-length documentary
Reason
Special Jury Award for feature-length documentary
Los Reyes
Idfa Competition for First Appearance
Best first appearance
Giacinto Scelsi.
- 11/22/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Reason by Indian director Anand Patwardhan won the main prize.
The main prizes have been announced at the 31st International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam.
Reason by Indian director Anand Patwardhan won the Idfa Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary, The film, sold internationally by Cinephil, examines the rise of fascism in Indian society, as secular rationalists are hunted down when they attempt to stem the rising tide of religious and nationalist fundamentalism.
In their statement, the jury members praised “the epic storytelling of the rise of the far right in one of the most populated countries of this planet, the violence of...
The main prizes have been announced at the 31st International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam.
Reason by Indian director Anand Patwardhan won the Idfa Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary, The film, sold internationally by Cinephil, examines the rise of fascism in Indian society, as secular rationalists are hunted down when they attempt to stem the rising tide of religious and nationalist fundamentalism.
In their statement, the jury members praised “the epic storytelling of the rise of the far right in one of the most populated countries of this planet, the violence of...
- 11/21/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Amsterdam — Delivering on new artistic director Orwa Nyrabia’s commitment to giving space to documentaries from the global south, this year’s Idfa festival handed its main prize to Anand Patwardhan’s “Reason”, described by the festival as “a broad-ranging examination of Indian society, in which secular rationalists are hunted down as they attempt to stem the rising tide of religious and nationalist fundamentalism.”
At a ceremony held at the International Theater Amsterdam, jury members Daniela Elstner, Jean-Michel Frodon, Tala Hadid, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, and Alina Marazzi voted “unanimously” for Patwardhan’s 261-minute film, praising its “epic storytelling of the rise of the far right in one of the most populated countries of this planet … in a way that acknowledges the complexity of the situation but puts it in a very understandable shape.”
In second place, the Special Jury Award went to the crowd-pleasing dogs-in-a-skatepark doc “Los Reyes” by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnivikoff.
At a ceremony held at the International Theater Amsterdam, jury members Daniela Elstner, Jean-Michel Frodon, Tala Hadid, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, and Alina Marazzi voted “unanimously” for Patwardhan’s 261-minute film, praising its “epic storytelling of the rise of the far right in one of the most populated countries of this planet … in a way that acknowledges the complexity of the situation but puts it in a very understandable shape.”
In second place, the Special Jury Award went to the crowd-pleasing dogs-in-a-skatepark doc “Los Reyes” by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnivikoff.
- 11/21/2018
- by Damon Wise
- Variety Film + TV
In late 1965, Gay Talese set out to profile Frank Sinatra for Esquire magazine. Sinatra refused to be interviewed but allowed the writer to hang around, observing, which he did for three months, racking up almost $5,000 in expenses. In the end, Talese penned what became one of the most memorable celebrity profiles ever written, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” proving in the process that sometimes the indirect approach can be more effective than the ostensibly candid, all-access interview.
A charmingly roundabout documentary born of curiosity, patience, and no small amount of inventiveness on the part of its authors, “Los Reyes” reminds me of that story. There’s no glamorous A-lister at its center. In fact, there are hardly any human characters to speak of. This unconventional nonfiction portrait takes place at the oldest skate park in Santiago, Chile, and was intended to feature the teenagers who congregate there regularly. But over...
A charmingly roundabout documentary born of curiosity, patience, and no small amount of inventiveness on the part of its authors, “Los Reyes” reminds me of that story. There’s no glamorous A-lister at its center. In fact, there are hardly any human characters to speak of. This unconventional nonfiction portrait takes place at the oldest skate park in Santiago, Chile, and was intended to feature the teenagers who congregate there regularly. But over...
- 11/18/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Barcelona — Paris-based Cat & Docs has taken all international rights to Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff’s “Los Reyes,” a documentary feature which screens in competition at the 31st International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa).
The feature is produced by Chile’s foremost young documentary director Maite Alberdi in association with Perut and Osnovikoff’s own company, founded in 2003. It is co-produced by Hamburg-based Dirk Manthey Film.
“Los Reyes” follows two stray dogs, Chola and Fútbol, and they wander around the oldest skatepark (Los Reyes) in the Chilean capital of Santiago. From the canine point of view –a peculiar, sometimes humorous counterpoint– the audience is offered, in the background, in voiceover, a vivid portrait of this singular microcosmos featuring hurtling skateboards and boisterous teenagers.
“‘Los Reyes’ is a radical and beautiful cinematic portrait of a location and a society told with wit and talent. We are very excited to launch...
The feature is produced by Chile’s foremost young documentary director Maite Alberdi in association with Perut and Osnovikoff’s own company, founded in 2003. It is co-produced by Hamburg-based Dirk Manthey Film.
“Los Reyes” follows two stray dogs, Chola and Fútbol, and they wander around the oldest skatepark (Los Reyes) in the Chilean capital of Santiago. From the canine point of view –a peculiar, sometimes humorous counterpoint– the audience is offered, in the background, in voiceover, a vivid portrait of this singular microcosmos featuring hurtling skateboards and boisterous teenagers.
“‘Los Reyes’ is a radical and beautiful cinematic portrait of a location and a society told with wit and talent. We are very excited to launch...
- 11/6/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
The Cinema Tropical Awards, which honor the best in Latin American film production, have announced the nominees for their seventh annual ceremony. They feature 23 films from eight countries nominated in six different categories: Best Feature Film; Best Documentary Film; Best Director, Feature Film; Best Director, Documentary Film; Best First Film and Best U.S. Latino Film.
Read More: LatinoBuzz: Nominees Announced for the 6th Annual Cinema Tropical Awards
The winners will be announced at a special evening ceremony at The New York Times Company headquarters in New York City on Friday, January 13. The winning films will be showcased as part of the Cinema Tropical Festival at Museum of the Moving Image this winter.
The jury for the festival this year includes the following: Carlos Aguilar, film critic and journalist; Fábio Andrade, film critic and screenwriter; Ela Bittencourt, film critic and programmer; Eric Hynes, Associate Curator of Film, Museum of the Moving Image; Toby Lee,...
Read More: LatinoBuzz: Nominees Announced for the 6th Annual Cinema Tropical Awards
The winners will be announced at a special evening ceremony at The New York Times Company headquarters in New York City on Friday, January 13. The winning films will be showcased as part of the Cinema Tropical Festival at Museum of the Moving Image this winter.
The jury for the festival this year includes the following: Carlos Aguilar, film critic and journalist; Fábio Andrade, film critic and screenwriter; Ela Bittencourt, film critic and programmer; Eric Hynes, Associate Curator of Film, Museum of the Moving Image; Toby Lee,...
- 12/14/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
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